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Dan Berger at WA State Labor Council AFL-CIO, Seattle Office
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and Legacy of Equality and Leadership in Organizing will host an evening of reflections on civil rights, the labor movement, and the intergenerational Black freedom struggle featuring author Dan Berger in conversation with Michael Simmons, Cherika Carter, and Dr. M. Aziz.
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In the new book, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey, University of Washington-Bothell Professor and historian Dan Berger provides the life stories of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons, two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom.
The story of the Simmons family shows the enormous breadth and influence of the Black freedom struggle, spanning the world and across the United States, from organizing tenants in the American South in the 1960s, to struggling with construction workers in Seattle in the 1970s, and beyond.
Dan Berger (he/him) is an author and historian of activism, Black Power, and the carceral state. Stayed on Freedom is his most recent book. As a Professor at the University of Washington Bothell. he also co-directs the UWB Labor Studies Colloquium.
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